but a cloudy weather too across japan at the moment but. the race was bright skies behind. this is al jazeera. a low on neve barker this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up from 6 tons it's nighttime curfew to 46000000 people as coronavirus case is continue to surge there and around europe president trump supremes court nominee moves a step closer to confirmation as he prepares to face joe biden for their 2nd and final debate plus. this is the road.

after another day of on rest in lagos nigeria president calls for an end to the protests but doesn't address tuesday shooting by security forces. inside hariri becomes lebanon's prime minister for 4th time here after the protests the pushed him out of power. france is extending its curfew on 9 major cities to a further 38 areas meaning 46000000 people will now have to stay indoors at night for 6 weeks after following spain and passing a 1000000 confirm coronavirus cases is now recorded an all time high of 41 and a half 1000 new infections in 24 hours germany croatia and russia are 3 of the other european countries who also posted their biggest one day rise in infections well jim's foreign minister vilma's who was caretaker prime minister until recently

is now in intensive care with the virus the country had on average nearly 10000 new cases each day last week despite a population of just 11000000 is 2nd only to the czech republic in europe in terms of infections per capita thursday saw a new limits on movement on the closure of shops and hotels as hospitals fill up their. all schools will be closed for a month from monday and they'll be 2 rounds of population wide testing jonah hole has more on the situation around europe works with these pictures filmed anonymously and leaked onto social media herald a ghastly return to the worst of the code 900 pandemic in europe bodies wrapped in black plastic apparently filmed a week ago in the basement of a siberian hospital there are said to be awaiting autopsy into custody. the voice behind the camera says all of them had the virus or thoughtless. russia's

health services are under severe strain in places with the toll of daily deaths and infections rising to record highs. it's a familiar story across europe now firmly in the grip of pandemic once again both spain and france have exceeded a 1000000 cases of covert 19 with more french cities and 2 thirds of the population placed under a nighttime curfew. yet in the coming weeks will be tough and hospital services will be put to the test and the number of deaths will continue to rise and italy the country where dramatic pictures of the sick and dying were a glimpse of europe's future in the spring is posting its own record daily infection numbers in the autumn. around the situation was quiet and remained so for a couple of months now we are completely saturated at the moment we're not able to receive any we only have 4 beds left in the intensive care unit in germany where

effective testing from the start has helped the country fare better than most the infection is said to be back with full force health authorities have warned of an uncontrolled escalation. i'm very sad and thoughtful about this i suspect we'll have to face even more restrictions but i think it's justified we have to live with this pandemic in someone a field hospital in the czech republic the country in effective lockdown after the government brought back measures introduced earlier in the year balkan countries are seeing steep rises too and belgium says it's facing a tsunami of infections with political figures not immune 45 year old sophie vilma's deputy prime minister is in a brussels hospital undergoing emergency treatment in intensive care her condition is described as stable the same cannot be said for the pandemic across europe jonah how al-jazeera. the spanish government has overwhelmingly survived

a confidence vote in parliament over its handling of the pandemic the motion had been brought by the far right vox party but it failed to win any other support and was rejected by 298 votes of 52 the minority coalition government of pedro sanchez has faced criticism over its policies but the result is being seen as the main conservative opposition party distancing itself from the far right the south african government is warning of a potential 2nd wave of covert 19 cases that's after a 42 percent rise in 2 weeks in and around its 2nd largest city cape town south africa east the strict lock down last month for major miller in johannesburg has more on the government's strategy. well south africa until this point has adopted what it's called a risk adjusted strategy and at the height of the pandemic around june july and august so there fricker was between level 5 level 4 and 3 in the strategy and now

has moved down to level one which is the the the easiest or the the most lenient level in the strategy now most social events are allowed they've increased the number of people that can visit restaurants bars that can attend the funerals and this is the concern from the government that because of the pandemic has now been around for so long people are increasingly complacent they're not wearing mosque properly they're not at hearing to social distancing and the major concern i think for the government at this point are these social events specifically in nightclubs and bars you mentioned that in cape town there was a 42 percent increase in the last couple of weeks and one of the concerns they is any of bar in cape town that is considered a so a super spread away at least 80 people were infected there we saw something similar in the eastern cape where students went back to university and so the health

ministers really in kizzy is saying that complacency the easing of restrictions is leading to what could in ever to be a 2nd surge and this is what the leading expert in south africa is saying around the pandemic and what south africa potentially could face going forward. united states the daily death toll has passed 1200 for the 1st time since august 1000 deaths have been running at around 700 a day for most of october but this spike was expected after the number of new cases started rising 5 weeks ago the u.s. is the worst hit country with more than 220000 deaths since the outbreak started. the antiviral drug has been approved to treat covert 19 patients in the u.s. the country's food and drug administration says the drug will be used by those requiring hospitalization and there's a fear was one of the drugs used to treat donald trump it's become the standard of care for patients with severe covert 19 in the u.s.

after a major study showed that it reduced time in hospital but just last week a world health organization sponsored study found renters of fear did not help patients survive or recover faster. the u.s. senate judiciary committee has voted to subpoena the chief executives of twitter and facebook over allegations of censorship the move comes after the social media platforms decided to block recent stories from the new york post which made unverified claims about joe biden's son the tech c.e.o.'s are already set to testify before the senate commerce committee next week about alleged bias and privacy matters the head of google is also due to testify president trump supremes court nominee amy kone barrett has moved a step closer to being confirmed the votes are $1210.00 no it's.

the nomination will be reported favorably to the floor with a unanimous vote the senate judiciary committee approved her nomination even though the democrats boycotted the ballot when i'll go to a full senate vote on monday the republicans hold a majority making barrett's confirmation look all the more certain one of the issues likely to come up is the ideological makeup of the supreme court which at the moment as a conservative majority item was asked on the c.b.s. 60 minutes program whether he would pass the nation's top court with liberal judges this was his response if elected what i will do is put together a national commission a bipartisan commission of scholars constitutional scholars democrats republicans liberal conservative and i will ask them do over 180 days come back to me with recommendations as to how to reform the court system because it's getting

out of whack well as a big showdown looming because just under 4 hours donald trump and joe biden will go head to head in their 2nd and final u.s. presidential debate i white house correspondent kimberly how could joins us live from the debate venue in nashville tennessee kimberly it is an incredible meeting of minds that we're expecting a little bit later on what is the mood music like ahead of this all important debate. you know we're here on the campus of belmont university in the southeastern united states of tennessee the state that many are going to be watching very closely around the united states and around the world as both donald trump the u.s. president and the democratic presidential nominee joe biden will hit the stage at the same time for the final time before the november 3rd election and a lot of anticipation about what is going to happen in the next few hours there we know that what these better going to be doing is kind of making their closing

arguments to the american voters that have not yet voted of course we know that the number really of voters is surging in the united states in record numbers more than 40000000 americans now casting their ballots but for those that have not yet what we expect is that joe biden will be hammering donald trump on his handling of the krona virus pandemic in the united states and for his part we expect donald trump to bring up questions about joe biden's son hunter biden and some of his business dealings but the big question to all of this is during this 90 minute debate that will be a range of domestic and foreign policy issues will donald trump dial back the aggression that we saw from him in the 1st debate. you she was on the 1st presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden according to many political analysts was a low point in the 2020 us election because i want to as you do it over as you are

president sure things up the u.s. president worked he did leave interrupted his democratic rival and also the moderators are prisoners there waiting there's not a day and just 3 days later trump was in the hospital after testing positive for cope with 19 raising questions about whether or not he knew he was affected with the virus when he took to the debate stage trumps refusal to do a virtual debate. led to the cancellation of the 2nd presidential match up its stead both nominees participated in their own separate town halls at the same time and on the same night but now with the final debate set to take place in nashville there are questions about trump's tactics and whether he'll take an aggressive stance as he did in the 1st debate. what i was. bowling well. and

so i don't think we need. one notable change this time the campaigns agreed to an uninterrupted rule which means the microphone of the candidate who doesn't have the floor will be muted trump is unhappy about the change and has repeatedly attacked the debate commission and the next moderator as biased against him. earlier this week the trump campaign sent out a letter to the debate commission complaining it changed the focus of the debate from foreign policy adding more domestic issues like covert 19 and racial injustice meanwhile biden has spent the week at home without any public events analysts believe he has the most to lose by a poor showing in the final presidential debate will be. sizable.

and again your candidate. what you or say. the wrong way on the. world. it's the undecided voter that habit is often try to win over in a presidential debate but there are fewer undecided voters this year than in 2016 with early voting surging most have already made up their mind about who they want to win on election day. and kimberly as if things weren't thought enough already we're hearing the president is pushing to rapidly declassify a document disputing the u.s. intelligence finding in 2017 that russia wanted to help elect. yeah you're exactly right and leading this charge is the director of national intelligence john rachleff and there are some real questions about the timing of

this request now not only is there a push to declassify this but there is a once again an allegation that the president simply doesn't trust the findings of his own intelligence agency something that has been a recurring theme throughout tom's time in office we should point out that there is resistance to releasing this intelligence to declassify or make it public and that's coming from inside the intelligence agencies because the feeling of officials inside those agencies is that we're just too close to the november election that sources could be compromised even that there be could be concerns to national security now democrats are charging that in all of this that what's really happening here is the top of the station is politicizing the intelligence for sort of an effort to try and get donald trump reelected this is something that they are discounting but at the same time we should also note that john ratcliffe also had a hastily called press conference of up 24 hours ago where he once again brought up

concerns about election integrity pointing to russia and iran saying that there has been some meddling so it's clear that there may be an attempt by the trumpet ministration and donald trump supporters to kind of inject some uncertainty about the election basing it on some of the concerns from 2016 to building upon that again democrats wondering why now and so we'll have to see if the u.s. president brings this up when they hit the debate stage in a little more than 3 hours time what i can tell you is that this is really the last chance for donald trump to try and. close that gap because of course joe biden has the lead right now something that he's trying to hang on to and essentially run out the clock before november 8th or. in nashville tennessee on another very big day in american politics thank you very much and you can watch the final u.s. presidential debate in full here on al-jazeera from a 100 g.m.t. on friday now. expanded the powers of the president

allowing him to dissolve parliament and giving him immunity from prosecution. and official results gave a landslide win 2 guineas president alpha condé but the opposition refuses to accept the decision. nigeria's president has addressed the nation after more than 2 weeks of protest against police brutality mohamedou bihari called for an end to the demonstrations after a day where prison and other locations across lagos were set on fire but he didn't mention the shooting of protesters on tuesday reports from abuja for days the president has been under pressure to speak to a nation on the edge. after meeting the country's top security officials on thursday he asked security forces to act within the confines of law to halt the

rising violence across the country. continue to ensure the. end of freedom as well as the fundamental raids of those protected let's remember this go on one of those has the other to get into for to the legs and the girls' bodies as well as they. to grow up those their daily business is seen and for them the end of violence for more than 2 weeks demonstrators mainly young men and women took to the streets demanding an end to police brutality compensation for victims and the reform of nigeria's police force they also want officers guilty of extrajudicial killing us torture and disappearances to be prosecuted and punished. in a shocking move captured on mobile phones by witnesses security personnel used live

drones on demonstrators on tuesday after curfew was announced today cause. or be under jewish law and there has been part of the end sauce protest since it started brother missing for 12 years was last seen in the custody of the now disbanded group use your point at the center of the protest she watched the president's address on television and he's personally not impressed the president doesn't. the president doesn't think our lives are what you have. now. regardless. she said the protests to swim meet and decide their next line of action all day thursday security personnel what kept busy as mobs attacked police stations looting and burning properties across the city. here one of nigeria's main prisons the core you correctional facility is on fire and security officials say they fold and attempt

to set the prisoners free it's the 5th prison to be attacked in 3 days in a scene of the 1st mass prison escape more than 1700 prisoners are still at large the past 2 weeks have been some of the most difficult for this nation of over 200000000 people since its return to democracy in 1909 and the next few days will be critical in determining whether the president's pronouncement are enough to calm the situation armitage reece al jazeera america so long as president now has expanded powers after the parliament overwhelmingly approved an amendment to the constitution caused by rajapaksa will now be able to dissolve parliament before its term finishes and has full immunity from prosecution and also have the power to appoint key officials including some judges the opposition had urged the government to withdraw the legislation which critics say will impose autocratic rule middle

fernandez has the reaction from colombo. rajapaksa bandwagon which began with the rajah packs of contesting the presidency he went to the people asking for a mandate essentially to make the necessary changes to the constitution to allow him to do what's necessary for this country to report that confidence and essentially the people voted on mass for him and we're seeing that essentially indication of that coming to fruition in the parliament 156 m.p.'s voting to change the constitution as opposed to 65 voting against it this obviously brings that huge sweeping range of powers back under the umbrella of gore tarbert rajapakse of the current executive president of sri lanka he has the power to appoint to dismiss the prime minister any minister he has the power of the asli to take on any ministerial portfolio to make sweeping appointments to a wide range of institutions very sensitive institutions the judiciary the national

police commission essentially also the whole system of appointments which for which the previous government in the 19th amendment had set up a constitutional council has been done away with now there's a parliamentary council but essentially most of those decisions and the power rests with the one man the executive president gautami rajapaksa saad hariri has again been named lebanon's prime minister with the country in the grip of a political and economic crisis is appointment was announced after consultations between lebanon's president and various political groups hariri resign from the job last year following antigovernment protests so no hoarder. sad how the the has returned to power the 3 time prime minister was appointed to form a government after receiving enough votes from lebanon's parliamentarians it will be the 1st anniversary next week of his resignation during the unprecedented

popular uprising that called for among other things a new leadership that movement failed to bring change but had it is promising to stop the collapse of the economy and provide a new way forward. for sure. i found my fellow employees and especially those who honored me by naming me by for me as quickly as possible a new nonpartisan government of experts with a mission of economic financial and administratively forms contained in the french initiative roadmap we have a chance possibly the last chance lebanon is facing multiple crises the economy is collapsing the local currency crashed there is rising poverty and unemployment the state which is close to bankruptcy is in desperate need of financial assistance the international community is conditioning aid to a reform minded government as part of an initiative by french president and manuel mccraw who has been leading rescue efforts this political class as we know and does

not care to listen about what the lebanese people have been calling for since they rose up on october 17th on words this is part of the culmination of the counter-revolutionary that started from the moment people took to the streets lebanon has been left with a caretaker administration since has sandy have resigned over the beirut port explosion in august that killed nearly 200 people and devastated many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital the previous prime minister designate most of a deal was forced to step aside after failing to convince traditional parties to give up representation in cabinet it's never an easy process in a divided political landscape where factions are allied with foreign powers. i didi is the favorite of the western leaders he is a regular at washington and paris and so he is the most pro western leader in lebanon so in a way this is a kind of a victory for the pro western front in lebanon how do you do you may have friends

in the international community but it's the other camp led by the pro iranian hezbollah that holds political power how did this return could be a step towards a deal but for now it doesn't signal an end to lebanon's political crisis so to her . or i well let's go deeper on this story by bringing in lebanese activist jessica obeyed who's a former analyst at the chatham house think tank she joins us by skype from beirut jessica thanks for joining us and of course as we heard there a year ago we were talking about saad hariri having no option to resign in order to bring these protests under control now he's back again sounds like groundhog day for many what's the reaction there what's the response to people hoping that they may have seen the back of sorry last year. so there is a wide feeling after despair especially among the young generation in lebanon and protest but if you and i keep expectations in check that was bound to happen be

gased says the system is of is a sectarian system that's built on power sharing of people coming in to go so they all need each other in a way to maintain their kind of business model and their vested interests in the system so we've expected to come back and change it is not going to happen overnight in lebanon despite the feeling among many have been years that we're back to square one and probably actually we were sent square one because what has happened in one year period when i didn't have been a lot of the policy action could have been taken to me to gape the impact of the financial and economic crisis and that didn't happen and we and was a tone of hey you cannot expect actual forms so we're going back and we're going down and we're going to get to us in lebanon and everyone expects that but also there are some sort of when's that maybe we can talk about next. you touched on

some of the catalogue of issues that lebanon faces the economic crisis being one of them. could you give us a same sort of the scale of the challenges that this new government faces as it tries to deal with these issues one by one. well 1st there's a need for serious reforms and austerity measures which the government is going to church or have troubles implementing even if they want to implemented a force because they need citizens my end which is so the trust is completely absent and there is a wide gap between people and the citizens and the governments especially a government led by haiti so and then lebanon has no influence of hope currency is so that needs to be packet through a problem yet package was there i am math and also other bilateral might might allow to financial support and that's not going to happen unless the government is

very serious on new forms but also how can we expect the same people who got lebanon into or this huge financial and economic crisis to actually be able to say lebanon away from it it's like lebanon has been doing the exact same thing we have the exact same people and expecting a different outcome and as you know this is exactly the finishing up in time to what we've heard time and time again about the urgent need for reform of the country what do you understand is holding the or thora things but for implementing these reforms. vested interests so there's a high level of corruption and vested interests across the value chain in different sectors in lebanon that's linked to all. parties and always the speed but and so they've been splitting pieces of the cake and now there is no longer a cake to lead but they're still trying to make probably a deal is on a future expectations of probably some money flowing into lebanon and we all know

that the international community is telling them over and over again that you're not going to going to get any kind of support if you're not going to match the force but we also know that the government is not going to be for a we're stuck in a vicious circle and. ok jessica. speaking to us on skype from beirut thank you so much for your time. there's a lot more still to come this hour still on the streets terms of thousands of tiny protesters continue their calls for reform of the government council's it's the mergence the decree. and as the opposition movement winds europe's top human rights prize the country's interior minister says process their returning into a terrorist threat.

we got some decent spells of dry weather across eastern parts of here at the moment but we have got some wet weather over towards the west bands of cloud and rain still streaming in from the atlantic will keep it on settle but not says sun settled as it has been over the past few days so what's the weather moving for us by the post go for time but some heavy downpours possibly some localized flooding moving in across the central and southern parts of france over towards the out some lesser weather also creeping into germany and some blustery showers rolling in across the northwest there for oland and the u.k. but a bit of wet weather over towards that east side if you're up to moscow it around 13 celsius so elise it's warming up but i'm afraid getting a little wet in the process clear skies for want to go on through saturday some showers there into poland into batteries and that western weather moving across the yachts feeding over into the balkans but brighter skies to come back in behind the

southwest which was a northwest horrible looking back and of cloud and rain swirling in a proper awesome storm so wet some blustery weather to be expected as we go through the weekend but some places a wet weather to into northwestern parts of africa maybe the arch sounds and all the libya and egypt and then she was there for the central belt. agreeing to take a call to say good hundreds of followers to what tropical. one eye when a student gets to gates the secretive city accused of abuse and violence in fiji. on al-jazeera. frank assessments if american public opinion piece betrayed by social media platforms after november what would be the big question is if you believe that there corrosive to our democracy one obvious solution is to break the law informed opinion lucas and his dog anyway the protesters aren't going anywhere

either it's a bullet with good resolution people in depth analysis. 6 of the day's global headlines come with it that's really out there on the street inside story on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs right around. washington. a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera france is extending its curfew on mine major cities to a further 38 areas this means around 46000000 people will now have to stay indoors

at night it comes as the country reported a wreck or $41.00 and a half 1000 new cases. nigeria's president has called for an end to protest began 2 weeks ago against pre-placed brutality but in a speech to the nation muhammadu buhari failed to mention the fatal shooting of protesters on shoes during. the confirmation vote of u.s. supremes court nominee amy cody barrett's is set to go ahead on monday after the senate judiciary committee approved her nomination this is presidential candidates donald trump and joe biden are in nashville preparing for their final presidential debate in about 3 and a half hours. or let's talk more about the debate with alan schroeder who's a professor at northeastern university on the author of presidential debates risky business on the campaign trail he joins us live from albuquerque new mexico hello and thanks for your time firstly let me start by asking you who's in the risky position here in the debate is it biden with apparently and 8.5 percent advantage

according to some polls or is it trump. well there's always risk there's always risk because it's live t.v. and anything can happen but i actually think that biden probably has the easier job to do tonight just protecting his lead not doing anything to get in the way of that trajectory that you just mentioned whereas trump really has to turn things around and that's a much harder thing to do i get elections really be won and lost on these kind of debates especially given such a vast number of people what is it 30000000 people of already cast their vote yes having a quarter of the population has already cast its vote and add to that the fact that this year there are very few undecided voters to begin with so this debate probably won't have a huge effect on the outcome of the election and generally they don't but you always have those last minute people and you always have the people that haven't been paying rapt attention all along for whom the debate is useful and maybe even

helps them decide how they're going to vote what about the role of debates like this in restoring public confidence in faith and a political system i mean after the 1st debate that ended up in a coffin of noise there was disappointment from both sides of the political spectrum there in the u.s. and now of course we know that there is this all important mute button so each of the candidates will have a chance to speak without interruption is there much faith left in this kind of this kind of format. i think so i think you know really we've been doing this in the us for 60 years now in this is the 1st cycle where things just totally went off the rails i think it has really much more to do with a particular candidate then with the idea of debates or the format of the moderator or any of those other things so yeah i know i'm not ready to you sort of write off the debates as an antiquated thing of the past i think that they can still serve a purpose but ideally with better candidates and could you give us

a sense of the key issues because we got a vera at least 6 points that each of the candidates will have to address one by one. right yes coronavirus which is something that obviously doesn't play to troops strengths they'll be talking about climate change they'll be talking about the economy they'll be talking about american families and not sure what that means exactly but i guess we'll find out is that we talking about leadership so it's sort of the same ground that the at least tried to cover last time but of course last time they didn't talk much substance it was a little more the africa than that now as somebody who's written a book called the they the impact of presidential debates how do you even go about preparing for a situation like this we know that joe biden has been keeping a low profile for the for the past few days i want to what he's been up to. he's been in sort of this debate boot camp where they run into the paces they'll do fulling to mock debates where they they run a whole 90 minutes they'll have

a stand in for trucks they'll have a stand in for the moderator and they'll hit biden with everything that trump might possibly throw at him as well in the hope that that prepares him for what could happen on the live t.v. no on the other hand trump hasn't been preparing much at all in so you know that's part of the the contrast that i think we'll see tonight want to be or who is prepared to discuss the issues and question in another who is probably going to rely more on stylistics then any policy issues to talk about or looks like it's going to be an almighty if somewhat unpredictable head to head alan schroeder in albuquerque thank you so much thank you. official results from 37 out of 38 of getting voting districts show president alpha condé winning a 3rd term with a landslide victory since sunday's election at least 10 people have been killed and dozens of others injured when security forces fired at supporters of opposition presidential candidate say low dalen diallo he's disputing the results as nicolas

hack reports. for a brief moment the gunfire starts. interrupted by families who are in mourning. i do so i do jell-o. 14 years old chair known as he was 13 years old and 10 year old marcelo these young victims were shot by security forces some in the face while they were celebrating a candidate said he would die in jail it was a preliminary victory announcement in sunday's presidential vote from here military 5 children small boy of 10 to 20 years old they never pick on a real man i hope that their death will not go in vain and that the violence will stop after the election commission known as the seine announced some of the provisional results all in favor of incumbent president of the condé jello supporters took to the streets in protest. and.

nothing. nothing to do with. the media. and. mobile phone footage circulating on social media like this one showing election officials pending votes in favor of the president is deepening mistrust in the electoral process the 82 year old president amended the constitution earlier this year which allowed him to run for a 3rd term in office the decisions part of widespread criticism in protests president candidate believes he will win the final vote which is expected this weekend meanwhile the government is accusing jello for mentoring on rest by announcing his victory before the official election results. condé is a democrat he will accept the outcome no matter the result additional mobile phone

footage shows the military. position inside for the neighborhoods known to support jell-o. power has been cut and people live in fear look at these dogs comments the women are filming they're shooting are people over 10 people have died and scores have been injured shot by security forces using force to silence dissent against a population that is meant to protect not kill nicholas hawke al-jazeera. at least 12 civilians have been killed in an afghan military attack targeting taliban fighters the airstrike hit a school in the northeastern province of tucker on thursday officials say an investigation is under way it comes as peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban continue in qatar contre for reports from kabul citizens are growing tired of the unrest mohammed in a series sits in his empty shop and waits for the customers that have stopped

coming but mostly he's waiting for the peace that has yet to come. we are very tired tired of this war there is a war here from the last 40 years and we spent all our lives in the war when we see the current situation it really hurts us. but for the united states its longest war is showing signs of ending the largest american military base here background kabul is reducing its size president donald trump said he wants all american troops home by christmas but the pentagon and state department say 2 and a half 1000 troops will remain into next year afghan business owners at the bazaar near baghran base have been losing customers because of the withdraw and along with them hope for the future. we have no hope from the government when they're asking for your vote they make

a lot of good promises about our future that when they're in power they don't fulfill those promises they even took the bread from our table. government forces and the taliban are again fighting in the south or improv is of helmand. tens of thousands have been forced from their homes and dozens of schools closed throughout the decades a war not gonna stand as well as the military casualties civilians have often been caught in the crossfire and afghans have repeatedly called for a cease fire to like the peace talks in doha progress but the ceasefire isn't happening analysts say the various sides are increasing their attacks to gain leverage in the peace negotiations and while talks have not reached a make or break point if they fail to me as a says the stakes for the country are too high we already have people in afghanistan rearming because they say well the americans are leaving the afghan

government might hold for a while and we should defend ourselves and i hope taliban realize that because then it's this afghan but this war will become really asking us and it will turn into a civil war into a sectarian war internet make or will be very bloody afghans hope history won't be repeating itself in the repetition of the bloodshed that followed the soviet withdrawal 30 years ago contra for al-jazeera kabul. a roadside bomb has killed a senior cleric in the syrian capital damascus it happened in the town of could just west of the capital state media has confirmed the sunni muslim mostly of damascus shaikh mohammad who any was killed so far no group has claimed responsibility. tens of thousands of demonstrators have been back out in thailand demanding the prime minister's resignation and reform of the marking this after

prime minister prize with china council of last week's and merge and see decree binding gatherings of more than 4 people which most people had ignored protesters rallied outside government house and said they'd be back in 3 days unless china stepped down so high low reports from bangkok 0. 0 it. started speaking out against the government 6 years ago. that's when the current prime minister. led a coup that ousted the democratically elected government he's now working with the protesters who have been coming out to thailand street by the 10s of thousands the demonstrations started in july and ramped up last week with a gathering every day what's different now from 6 years ago a call for reform of the monarchy. the people lost their faith in the royal institution we can deny that if we don't talk about and want to keep openly people would cost about eventually the want to and the set of core have 2 choices either

use firelands like they did in the past or change and preserve their status unwavering in his mission to bring about reform and change he says he was attacked last year for being outspoken beaten so badly he spent 2 weeks in hospital but he's not stopping. i'm proud to be thai but i'm reluctant to tell the world that i am a tie we have been taught to obey and not question authority and if you don't we were blinded in the past. and the thousands across the country. working to put that past behind the scenes like this are grabbing attention across thailand and across the world expressing the desire for monarchy reform something unthinkable even just earlier this year but there is an opposing view and it's not just limited to government house or the palace wearing yellow showing their allegiance to the monarchy those who support the king have also held rallies over the last few months they've been much smaller but some supporters say that could change water wrong.

was a member of parliament with the largest conservative party but lost his seat in last year's election to a program for party candidate. i think there are more people who disagree with the current protests on the streets but we must be patient and i believe that we will see more movement from those who want to protect the monarchy but it will be peaceful but i think the voice of the young people in the students are a minority. regardless of the actual numbers on either side of the issue there is no dispute that the voices are getting louder of those who want change and to shake up thailand's long established power structure it's got harder al-jazeera. investment bank goldman sachs will pay almost $3000000000.00 in penalties for its role in the malaysian one m d b corruption scandal the settlement comes after its malaysian subsidiary pleaded guilty to violating bribery laws and admitted to paying more than $1000000000.00 to foreign officials to win business a 5 year investigation into the scandal involved and nearly 9 different countries.

still ahead this news out. in poland after the country's top call by almost all abortions. the hunt for georgia's most wanted man dozens of hostages freed but the government disappears with half a $1000000.00. he

says it will send troops to go to requested by azerbaijan but russia says any turkish military deployment will only make things worse as well john and armenia

have been fighting over the disputed region for more than 3 weeks despite to cease fire deals to go to colonise as an issue an internationally recognized as part of as advice but controlled by ethnic armenians. the fighting is having a devastating impact on people on both sides of the conflict in azerbaijan thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and more than 3 weeks after the fighting started many are struggling to survive. some of them and central azerbaijan by the side of this road they watched a war unfolding a few kilometers away. with each explosion they wonder what was hit chino mohammad has been living in his car for the past month from here he can monitor his village now trapped in the conflict zone. and we stay here because we have to take care of our harvest and our land when it calms down we rush there to see what has been hit

and feed the animals and then we come back we try to go there 3 times a day. short drive away more people are escaping the battlefield they've managed to bring their livestock to safety they tell us their village has also come under fire this should have been cotton picking season but there's barely anyone left here to harvest the war has expanded with random shelling reaching well beyond the line of contact so for this year the crops are going to waste about 100000 people have fled their homes living in schools that have shut because of the conflict many had already been displaced since their land in 1900. lived as a displaced person for most of her life her family fled the karabakh region and settled in now the war has caught up with her. i remember when armenia was bombing and our house was hit my sister was 11 she was

wounded and my brother was killed i remember all of this it's engraved in my memory one turtle got bombed i ran away with my 3 children i had lived through all of this already so i was scared for them i already knew this sounds but they didn't. but these are different times for azerbaijan it now has a well equipped army so when solomon know by now the meanest son said he wanted to volunteer she gave him her blessing. because he got injured i told it's for the sake of color have to get our land back no matter the cost if i could i would join the fight right now. it's been 26 years since as a brit john was defeated by army but now its army is making territorial gains and there's a growing hope among many here that they will soon return to their lost land. but of. the opposition movement umbrella reduces won the european parliament's highest human rights award the sakharov prize for weeks hundreds of thousands of people

have taken part in nationwide protests and strikes in the country calling for an end to president alexander lukashenko 26 year so new reports. and announcement. it is a great honor to inform you that the conference of the president has decided to give the sachar prize for freedom of thought to the democratic opposition groups a message. continue to be strong and continue to fight your fight and your struggle we will stand by your side. and a show of unity in the european union which has condemned the political repression and belarus. and it is the women of the opposition movement who have been at the forefront since the august presidential elections. remains in control after 26 years the opposition continues to call for

a peaceful transfer of power in response to what they and the west say was a rigged vote i'm really. glad that. the. award because this is not only for. you know for me it's what or for all the glory sent people because now we like one organism who is who is fighting the regime among the finalists of the award the archbishop of mosul. who helped iraqi christians a scape the onslaught of eisel and safeguarded more than $800.00 historic manuscripts. the memory of the one and better and good defenders the one juror an indigenous activist who fought against illegal logging and land grabs gustavus was assassinated in 2016 by armed intruders in her home after years of threats

against her life. to war together with e.u. sanctions may bring new international pressure. but inside tens of thousands of people have continued to march through the streets of the capital minsk every weekend despite the police brutality the jailing of members of the opposition and the muscling of independent media their fight goes on sunday to go out as era where the opposition may have been ordered to put their protests are being called a terrorist threat by the belorussian government earlier the head of the russian foreign intelligence service flew to minsk and what looked like a show of support for alexander look at the 2 men have accused the u.s. and its western allies of fueling the protests. poland's top court has ruled that a law allowing abortions juta fetal defects is unconstitutional the decision means terminations are now almost totally banned of options will only be allowed in the

case of rape incest or if the pregnancy threatens the mother's health poland's opposition says the court is carrying out the political will of the conservative ruling party my home values in the market for years i cannot get my head around a situation in which i am forced to give birth to a child who is going to die this is traumatic for everyone for 9 months you'll be carrying a child with serious genetic defects which you know is not going to live very long this is traumatic for a woman for her whole family and everyone else around her i hope that maybe in 20 or 30 years that the next generations will have easy access to abortion a manhunt is under way in georgia for a bank robber armed with guns and a hunger an aide who held $43.00 people hostage he escaped with half a $1000000.00 off negotiating his way out of the standoff robin forrester walker in tbilisi as more c.c.t.v. from inside this bank of georgia branch in zouk d.d.

shows a gunman well armed and seemingly well trained terrorizing staff and customers hostages were asked to contact the media. saying that we could randomly i mean only. one of them relayed his demands to a t.v. station $500000.00 in cash and safe passage armed police units waited officials pledged with the media to stop broadcasting live from the scene. i wish look on the night it means yes we demand from all media outlets including mobile operators to cut off restrict a live signal in order to ensure the safety of hostages law enforcers and ordinary citizens in order to effectively conduct police measures. but there were to be no police measures some hostages were released then after lengthy negotiations. more were freed some clearly traumatized in exchange for cash it's alleged and

the local chief of police he and 3 other hostages emerged as human shields with a gunman holding what appeared to be a grenade in georgia there's been relief that nobody was harmed but also disbelief that this gunman whose identity remains unknown was able to get away with such a brazen crime after the final hostages were released the gunman reportedly escaped into a forest not far from the breakaway region about highers here where local media speculated he might seek refuge the search is now on to catch georgia's most wanted man robyn 1st year walker al-jazeera tbilisi. well that's it from a native barker for this news hour but i'll be back in a moment with more of the day's news don't go away.

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